AAIIRRPPOOSSTT JJOOUURRNNAALL The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society July 2015 Volume 86, No. 7 Whole No. 1021 July’s Featured Article — American Around-the-World (ATW) Flights Page 270 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! United States / Germany 1927 NY to Berlin AAMS T.O. 1056 Columbia . $1,750.00 1930 C13 - C15 Pan Am flight Round Trip S.64D II . $2,950.00 Germany / Luxembourg 1931 Bremen catapult (K59 LX $1500) . $1,000.00 Zanzibar 1934 10th South America Flight sent to London, then Germany to Brazil S.28Aa . $1,750.00 Afghanistan 1933 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.235A . $4,250.00 Andorra 1933 2nd South America Flight via Paris, sent to Brazil S.214A . .$1,000.00 Austria 1932 (June 22) Catapult cover Europa to New York sent by registered mail to Costa Rica. Stamped "Received in ordinary mail N.Y.P.O. Var - ick S" Backstamped Berlin, New York and Costa Rica on reverse. K111AU cv $800.00 Hab. 89 . $750.00 British Somaliland 1933 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.235Aa . $2,250.00 Canada 1936 Hindenburg to France S.409G . $750.00 Cyrenaica 1935 5th South American Flight sent to Brazil S.302Aa . $500.00 Denmark 1933 C3, C5 Registered Catapult 7 carried (K143 DK $1000) $875.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com JULY 2015 PAGE 265 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal Letters to — ARTICLES — American Around-the-World (ATW) Flights ................................................ 270 the Editor David S. Ball, RPSL Zeppelins and Beyond ................................................................................... 278 William Kriebel Not Just ‘Pretty Pictures’ Albert F. Zahm and his Glider Flying ........................................................... 298 I am replying to John Wilson's letter in the March 2015 issue of Simine Short the Airpost Journal. I believe all members should be able to collect what interests — COLUMNS and FEATURES — them and be able to express their opinions. I have been a member since Letters to the Editor ....................................................................................... 267 the 1960s and have collected FAM 14 at least that long. In my opinion, I President’s Message ...................................................................................... 268 do not believe my collection should be looked at as "pretty pictures." I do Airmail Elsewhere in Print ............................................................................ 284 believe that it is the FAM-CAM collector who has kept the AAMS going Canadian Air Mail Notes ............................................................................... 288 all these years. APJ Book Review .......................................................................................... 300 Jack Graham — NEWS — Works Should Have Been Cited Correction to May 2015 Article ..................................................................... 297 On page 229 of the last issue (June 2015), John Wilson begins, Americans Win Another Pillage Trophy ....................................................... 301 Major AAMS Awards for 2015 ..................................................................... 303 "Recent articles (not in the Airpost Journal) . Is there a reason for not citing the author to whom he is referring? This is a scholarly journal. — DEPARTMENTS – Most current readers will recognize the reference. In a few years it will APJ Ads ......................................................................................................... 308 not be so readily identifiable. Membership Report ....................................................................................... 305 I do think that the editor should have filled in the information Thomas P. Myers No Mail on the Fourth of July (Ed. Note: This email was written to Richard Saundry in regards to his article, Editor and Advertising “Onward Air Transmission of Hindenbur g Mail from New York,”which Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 appeared in Page 142-145 of the April 2015 Airpost Journal.) vcanfi[email protected] It was a very interesting article in the latest APJ. You are right Staff Writers and Columnists that it is very difficult to determine actual airmail transportation within Joe Kirker Alan Warren Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer the U.S. due to the lack of arrival postmarks. U.S. post officers were Copyright 2015 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - indeed very lousy in terms of applying arrival postmarks. But was all lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. Hindenburg zeppelin mail intended for domestic airmail actually for - Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send warded by surface transportation as you have stated? address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. The cover illustrated on page 144/145 is not quite the best cover Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and to prove your point. In my opinion it actually was flown. The Hindenburg do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. arrived in New Jersey on July 2 at 4:18 a.m. After customs clearance at PAGE 266 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 267 Lakehurst, the entire mail load was flown to New York and the Morgan side. All costs of exhibiting – both direct and indirect – have risen signifi - Annex post office sorted and forwarded the mail according to sender’s cantly recently. Many exhibitors are cutting back on the number of exhi - preferences and destination. I have no idea how long this procedure at bitions they plan to participate in or even attend. With the New York Lakehurst and New York took. This might compare to any arrival in the 2016 World Philatelic Exhibition now less than 12 months out, anyone U.S.: you can be through customs and immigration in five minutes or planning to attend is going into the savings mode now. It is certain that after six hours you are still waiting in the immigration line. New York will not be a cheap date. In any event, following that procedure, on July 2 at 4:30 p.m., My primary interest areas in aerophilately do not extend into the United Air Lines flew from New York to San Francisco, arriving the next development and operations of Pan American Airways, in spite of the day at 9:16 a.m. The next flight left New York at 11 p.m., arriving in San fact that it is arguably the richest and most inviting area in American Francisco the next day at 4:11 p.m. Whatever flight your cover actually aerophilately. Those with any deep interest in PAA know that the took, it arrived at San Francisco on July 3 and was forwarded by surface Richter Library at the University of Miami in Florida holds the PAA from San Francisco to Palo Alto, a small hop of only 30 miles. So your archives, a treasure trove of primary source information. A great deal of cover arrived at Palo Alto either late on July 3 or early on July 4. This is information from that source can also be found on the website of the meaningless because the cover was neither postally serviced nor deliv - West Africa Study Circle, presented there as a free download source. ered on July 4; this is Independence Day in the U.S. and nothing is mov - The availability of archives varies greatly. Access is becoming ing (except fireworks). On July 5, 1936 nothing was moving either: this increasingly difficult. Much of what one would expect to find is missing. was a Sunday. So your cover finally arrived at Palo Alto on Monday, July The problems in many cases begin with poor record keeping at the out - 6. It was postmarked and a first attempt was made to deliver the cover. set . records that were never made or kept. Wars, mergers, consolida - tions, bankruptcies, politics, inconsistent practices and passage of time President’s have all taken their toll. The list of reasons to ignore or scrap old records is much longer than the list of reasons to organize, preserve and grant Jim Graue Message access to them. The records made 50 or 80 years ago are not viewed as potential areas of profit by today’s management. Only historians want to A second was made on July 8. see any of them. So this is my analysis and why I think that the cover was actual - Introduce a friend to the wonderful world of Aerophilately . ly flown from New York to San Francisco. give a membership to the Dieter Leder Deadlines being what they are for our Airpost Journal , this is American Air Mail Society! being written on June 1, only three days before departing for our 2015 AAMS convention in conjunction with NAPEX. It has been very quiet recently, the calm before the storm? There is nothing stirring on the AAMS election front that I know of at this time. Perhaps something will develop at the convention. I am disappointed that more of us are not exhibiting at NAPEX. Aerophilately 2014 revealed that we have many exhibitors with exceed - ingly interesting exhibits, but only a handful chose to show at NAPEX. Most appear to be on “spring break” when it comes to exhibiting. The costs of exhibiting have been increasing notably for some time. We are at a point where the balance between “desire” and “cost” is skewed to cost considerations becoming more decisive on the negative PAGE 268 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 269 What archives there are merit attention now, as they are general - by air. Traveling 26,350 miles in 371 hours (over a span of over five ly seen as having rapidly diminishing importance with the passage of months) amphibian Douglas World Cruisers flew from Seattle, Washing - time. Archives would make the “endangered species” list in a heartbeat. ton, to Seattle, Washington.